Thought provoking proverbs

I'm a great admirer of Swami Vivekananda. Whatever principles he followed, and everything that he preached can be applied to one's life even today. Few of his quotes which greatly inspire me are as below : 

1. Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success, that is the way great spiritual giants are produced, others are mere talking machines.

2. Stand up, be bold, be strong. Take the whole responsibility on your own shoulders, and know that you are the creator of your own destiny.

3. They alone live who live for others, the rest are more dead than alive.

4. Arise! Awake! And stop not till the goal is reached.

5. To be good and to do good - that is the whole of  religion.”

6. Stand and die in your own strength; if there is any sin in the world, it is weakness; avoid all weakness, for weakness is sin, weakness is death. 

7. Neither money pays, nor name pays, nor fame, nor learning; it is CHARACTER that can cleave through adamantine walls of difference. 

8. Misery comes through attachment, not through work. As soon as we identify ourselves with work we do, we feel miserable; but if we  don’t identify ourselves with it, we do not feel that misery.

9. Nature wants us to react, to return blow for blow, cheating for  cheating, lie for lie, to hit back with all our might, then it requires a super divine power not to hit back, to keep control, to be unattached. 

10. Your country requires heroes; be heroes; your duty is to go on  working, and then everything will follow of itself. 

11. Nature wants us to react, to return blow for blow, cheating for cheating, lie for lie, to hit back with all our might, then it requires a super divine power not to hit back, to keep control, to be unattached.

12. Three things are necessary to make every man great, every nation great:

         * Conviction of the powers of goodness,

         * Absence of jealousy and suspicion, 

         * Helping all who are trying to be and do good.

The above if implemented in one's life, will bring happiness, success, prosperity and peace undoubtedly.

-Peace,

Priyal